The background filled in with a slip turned black.
Attic black figure technique.
550 bce when the great attic painters among them exekias and the amasis painter developed narrative scene decoration and perfected the black figure style.
The black figure technique was first applied in the middle of the 7th century bc during the period of proto attic vase painting.
Laconia was a third albeit minor producer of the style in the.
Because it was much easier for artisans to draw figures in this way rather than delineate them with incisions as in the black figure technique red figure pottery became the predominant method in ancient greece until the late 3rd century.
In contrast the decorative motifs on red figure vases remained the color of the clay.
Circa 520 bc the red figure technique was developed and was gradually introduced in the form of the bilingual vase by the andokides painter oltos and psiax.
Influenced by pottery from corinth which offered the highest quality at the time attic vase painters switched to the new technology between about 635 bc and the end of the century.
Figures are further enhanced with glaze lines or a brush.
The red figure technique emerged around 591 b c.
700 bce and then adopted by pottery painters in attica where it would become the dominant decorative style from 625 bce and allow athens to dominate the mediterranean pottery market for the next 150 years.
Red figure quickly eclipsed black figure yet in the unique form of the panathanaic amphora black figure continued to be utilised well into the 4th century bc.
Ancient greek black figure pottery named after the colour of the depictions on the pottery was first produced in corinth c.